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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:57:44 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ncurses not found when compiling various packages
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On Jul 19 13:47, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I often get the message from configure scripts for applications that
> are curses-based that no ncurses could be found (although it actually
> is installed[1] and many applications happily use it)
> 
> What's going wrong and how can I point the configure script to my
> "ncurses" dlls? Any environment variable or something like that?

Installing libncurses-devel might help.

Corinna

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